The National Institutes of Health has rescinded more than $3.2 billion in research grants nationwide this year, according to a June 17 report from Grant Watch.
Grant Watch is a volunteer-led project that tracks terminated scientific research grants — specifically from the NIH and the National Science Foundation — under the Trump administration in 2025. Data is collected from various sources, including self-reports from affected researchers, federal databases such as NIH RePORTER, TAGGS and USASpending.gov, as well as news reports and social media.
Six takeaways from Grant Watch’s latest report:
1. More than $3.2 billion in NIH funding has been terminated since March. This figure excludes any reinstated grants and reflects actual funding withdrawn from research institutions nationwide.
2. In total, NIH has terminated 2,548 grants, with 2,468 currently inactive. Only 80 grants have been reinstated since the terminations began this spring, with many focusing on virus and vaccine research.
3. Boston-based Harvard Medical School has seen the most grant terminations (340), followed by Columbia University Health Sciences in New York City (166) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (158).
4. The majority of terminated grants have focused on public health and diversity. The most common keywords found in terminated grant abstracts include “cell,” “training,” “students,” “biomedical,” “community,” and “disparities.”
5. Massachusetts, New York and North Carolina have lost the most NIH funding of all U.S. states. These states account for more than 68% of all NIH dollars rescinded, with Massachusetts alone losing $1.27 billion in grants.
6. Despite widespread terminations, new NIH grants are still being issued. There were 78,354 active grants in the NIH system as of June 17, up from 77,807 the week prior, signaling that new awards are proceeding even as many others are being canceled.
